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A rose by any other name is still a rose...

A diet by any other name is still about energy.

The obesity epidemic has fostered increasing interest among manypeople to seekeffective treatment strategies.Relatively few research studies have compared the effectiveness of various diets with different macronutrient composition, and even fewer studies have comparednamedor branded (trade-marked)weight lossprogramsusingcomparable,wellcontrolledassessmentmethodsandoutcomemeasures.There is signi...

Comparison of the new miniature Wright peak flow meter with the standard Wright peak flow meter.

Preproduction and current models of the miniature Wright peak flow meter have been compared with the standard Wright peak flow meter on normal and abnormal subjects. Early problems in production appear to have been overcome, and the current model agrees to within 3% with the standard peak flow meter, which is as close as the agreement between two standard instruments. The new mini-meter may be ...

Necessity, The A Priori, And The Standard Meter

This article critically examines Saul Kripke’s (1972) argument for the separability of necessary truths from truths known a priori, focusing on his criticism of the standard meter case presented by Wittgenstein (1968). It attempts to show that Kripke’s argument is unworkable on any of several readings. Wittgenstein’s own broadly conventionalist account of necessary truth is then considered in t...

A rose by any other name is still a rose: A reinterpretation of Hantsch and Mädebach.

The Response Exclusion Hypothesis localises the semantic interference effect as observed in the picture-word paradigm at a postlexical level of processing. An important aspect of this proposal is that the ease with which distractor words can be excluded from production at the response level is determined by the degree to which they satisfy criteria demanded of a correct response. This proposal ...